Sweetheart's Dance

Infobox Album | Name = Sweetheart's Dance
Type = studio
Artist = Pam Tillis


Released = Start date|1994|04|26
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 33:03
Label = Arista
Producer = Pam Tillis
Steve Fishell
Reviews =
*Allmusic – rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fjfuxqugldhe link]
Last album = "Homeward Looking Angel"
(1992)
This album = "Sweetheart's Dance"
(1994)
Next album = "Pam Tillis Collection"
(1994) |

Sweetheart's Dance is a 1994 album from American country music singer Pam Tillis. It is her highest ranking album on the Billboard charts, at #6.

This album produced five singles: "When You Walk in the Room" (a cover of a Jackie DeShannon song), "Spilled Perfume", "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)", "I Was Blown Away" and "In Between Dances". Respectively, these reached #2, #5, #1, #16, and #3 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs charts. "I Was Blown Away" was withdrawn from radio after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. [cite web |url=http://www.stereophile.com/records2die4/308/index10.html |title=2000 Records to Die For|accessdate=2008-08-05 |last=Sokol |first=David |work=Stereophile]

Track listing

#"Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)" (Pam Tillis, Jess Leary) – 2:51
#"Sweetheart's Dance" (Doug Gill) – 3:39
#"Calico Plains" (Matraca Berg, Mike Noble) – 3:47
#"When You Walk in the Room" (Jackie DeShannon) – 2:44
#"Spilled Perfume" (Tillis, Dean Dillon) – 3:53
#"I Was Blown Away" (Layng Martine Jr.) – 2:45
#"They Don't Break 'Em Like They Used To" (Roger Brown, Jason Sellers) – 2:57
#"In Between Dances" (Craig Bickhardt, Barry Alfonso) – 3:21
#"Better Off Blue" (Susan Longacre, Walt Aldridge) – 2:52
#"Til All the Lonely's Gone" (Tillis, Bob DiPiero, John Scott Sherrill) – 3:55
#*duet vocals: Mel Tillis

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.
*Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
*Sam Bush – fiddle
*Bob DiPiero – 12-string guitar ("When You Walk in the Room")
*Dan Dugmore – acoustic guitar, steel guitar
*Paul Franklin – steel guitar
*Rob Hajacos – fiddle
*John Barlow Jarvis – piano, accordion
*John Jorgenson – electric guitar, mandolin (all tracks); acoustic guitar solo ("Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)")
*Mary Ann Kennedy – background vocals ("Spilled Perfume")
*Greg Leisz – steel guitar, electric rhythm guitar, Dobro
*Brent Mason – electric guitar
*Terry McMillan – percussion, harmonica
*Bill Monroe – mandolin solo ("Til All the Lonely's Gone")
*Steve Nathan – piano
*Bobby Ogdin – synthesizer
*Milton Sledge – drums
*Harry Stinson – percussion
*Pam Tillis – lead vocals, background vocals
*Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
*Willie Weeks – bass guitar
*Lonnie Wilson – drums, percussion

Background vocalists

*Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kim Richey ("When You Walk in the Room")
*Ashley Cleveland, Vicki Hampton, Liana Manis ("Better Off Blue")
*Vince Gill – background vocals ("They Don't Break 'Em Like They Used To")
*Suzy Ragsdale ("Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)", "I Was Blown Away")
*Harry Stinson ("Sweetheart's Dance")
*Cindy Tillis Westmoreland, Connie Tillis Howden, Carrie Tillis, Mel Tillis Jr.

References